It was a nice sunny day in Hawai'i, in the year
of 2052, and I was sitting down on the porch
watching my grandchildren play with each other in
the front yard. When all of a sudden I see my 7
year old grandson walk up to me and say,"Papa can
you tell me the story again? Please papa one more
time." After a little playing around I told him the
story.

Long ago, about 25 years ago when I was about 38
years old, I was called up by NASA when I was
putting my time in at the army base in Alaska. They
had called me and 4 other people up for this
mission. The crew members were Roy, Kanani, Kalani,
Kanoe, and last NASA assigned a chimp to us from
the zoo. But for some reason they put me in charge.
"Why you, grandpa?" asked my grandson, "your too
old, to be a captain." Well truthfully I don't
know, well anyway stop asking so much
questions.

So any way let me continue, "Josh," called the
instructor known as Houston,"you and your crew are
going into space for several reasons." Well what
are they I asked with an eager look to find out."1,
to test out our new spacecraft the Ukulele 3000, a
new designed spacecraft by NASA technologist. 2, go
to the planet of Oobleck and bring back a sample.
3, look for any sign of life forms up there. 4,
this is the most important one, stay alive." the
instructor demanded.

It was now May 3, 2027, the day we were about to
takeoff. The way that the spaceship would take off
is by my Colonel Roy playing a certain piece on the
ukulele. "Captain I will now engage the takeoff
sequence." replied Roy. roy started to play my
stomach felt like there were butterflies flying
around inside, then at that moment the computer had
said, "Access Granted, beginning countdown, taking
off in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, freeze. Was I about to
fly far away just to do some lazy old experiment,
am I willing to die for my country, well let's find
out. 3, 2, 1, 0, and takeoff aniciated. Boom,
whoop, swoosh we were off flying at an increasing
speed of 200 m.p.h. but still increasing in height
to 1,000 feet, we were bouncing all over the place
even with our seat belts on. Now I can say that I
know what it feels like to be a football.

Once we have gotten out of our atmosphere my
technologist Kanoe had just recently talked to
Houston saying,"Houston, we have just gotten out of
the atmosphere so we are transferring from boosters
to gliders," making it sort of like a airplane.
Looking back at earth I realized how lucky I was to
be on this piece of spacecraft, because it was just
a magnificent view. We were now 2 hours away from
landing on the oobleck. My Colonel wanted to take
over because he thought I was doing a horrible job.
Once I had told him no, he turned around acting
like he was leaving but as soon as I turned around,
boom, wham he just punched me from the back. I got
up and I was furious, but I knew I had to control
my anger so I stopped and let him go.

"Houston we have just reached the atmosphere of
planet oobleck and we are standing by for orders."
said my technologist Kanoe. Houston had replied but
it was all scratchy. Right before I space craft
started to let out water to liquify, make it
thinner. But still as we went out to explore it
still was letting water go. As me and Kalani were
walking and getting samples for the scientist back
at home.

When all of a sudden out of no where these green
looking things were attacking us with this weird
looking gun and shooting at us. Soon there was a
whole army of them. Me and Kalani were running for
our life as we were firing back at them. I yelled
out on the walky talky, Roy, Kanoe, Kanani, and
Fred meet me back at the ship we're getting the
hell out of here. But only Roy and Kanoe answered I
figured that Kanani and Fred was gone by now. So as
we got back safely, they were swarming us so we
decided to use our force field which could last a
good 25 minutes against their fire power.

I yelled Roy you go and start the ship while we
prepare for take off. "No!" he yelled with a
demanding voice,"I ain't your little commanding
dog." Well if you want to live you are. "Josh watch
out!" yelled Kalani, when all of a sudden Roy
tackles me from the back. We were rolling around on
the ground hitting, punching, kicking, and picking
each other up but then I grabbed Roy by the head
picked him up and threw him against the wall head
first, making him go into concussion.

I asked Kalani, how much more time do we have
left. Kalani replied,"Just barely over 15 minutes."
Kanoe can you reboot the computers with the amount
of energy we have and change the password to
anything Kalani can play. "Yes, but I might need
more time." she said in a nervous voice. Just do
it I yelled. The 15 minutes were up and she wasn't
finish yet. Me and Kalani opened up the doors and
started to shoot as much as possible to hold them
off a little longer for Kanoe. "Josh I finished,
you and Kalani can comeback inside now." yelled
Kanoe. Kalani was behind me, I was in front the
door was closing we made it in but Kalani
unfortunately got shot I carried him to the code
room and told him to play the password he started
to play with the strength that was left. The
computer said,"ACCESS GRANTED. Taking off in 10, 9,
8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0." And we were off.